Deadline: 1-Apr-25
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is seeking grant applications to encourage innovative health equity research to improve health outcomes for people from all minority populations.
The Minority Research Grant Program provides funding opportunities to support health equity research. The purpose of the program is to encourage innovative health services research that can directly and demonstrably contribute to improving health outcomes for people from all minority populations.
This program also encourages research that focuses on reducing health disparities at the health care system-level. This research will increase interest in characterizing and analyzing the factors associated with health related social needs.
Purpose
- The purpose of the MRGP is to test promising solutions in existing Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) programs, policies, or practices that affect social determinants of health (SDOH) and to learn how changes in SDOH achieve health equity. The program encourages innovative health services research that can directly and demonstrably contribute to improving health outcomes for people from all minority populations, including:
- Racial and ethnic minority groups.
- People with disabilities.
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people.
- People with limited English proficiency.
- Individuals residing in rural, tribal, and geographically isolated areas.
- People living with persistent poverty or inequality.
Funding Information
- Expected total funding for the program: $1,275,000
- Funding range per applicant for the period of performance: up to $212,500
- Expected total awards: up to 6
- Duration: They will provide funding in a single budget period of 24 months over a two year period of performance.
Eligibility Criteria
- Only these type of organizations may apply:
- Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education.
- Private institutions of higher education.
- Other eligibility requirements:
- This funding opportunity is open to the following entities:
- Historically Black colleges and universities.
- Hispanic-serving institutions.
- Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving institutions.
- Tribal colleges and universities.
- Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions.
- Native American-serving nontribal institutions.
- Predominantly Black institutions.
- This funding opportunity is open to the following entities:
For more information, visit Grants.gov.